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Qwen3 Max Thinking: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window
Qwen3 Max Thinking is a language model from Qwen, released in February 2026, with a 256K-token context window, and pricing from $1.20/M input, $0.240/M cached input, $6.00/M output.
The latest flagship reasoning model in the Qwen3 family. Further enhanced by multiple innovations like adaptive tool-use and advanced test-time scaling techniques
Qwen3 Max Thinking benchmarks
Capability tiers
Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.
Real tasks performance
High-confidence performance for Qwen3 Max Thinking across real-world prompt categories. Only 95% intervals at most 4 points wide are shown.
Performance by conversation depth
How Qwen3 Max Thinking holds up as conversations get longer.
Quality Tracker
Qwen3 Max Thinking Performance Across Datasets
Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts
Qwen3 Max Thinking pricing
Providers
Qwen3 Max Thinking starts at $1.20 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens via DeepInfra. Reused prompt prefixes cost $0.240 per million cached input tokens.
| Provider | Input $/M | Cached input $/M | Output $/M | Context in / out | TTFT p95 s | Output p5 c/s | Modalities in / out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1.20 | $0.240 | $6.00 | 256.0K/256.0K | — | — | / |
Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.
Qwen3 Max Thinking context window
Input and output token limits for Qwen3 Max Thinking, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.
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Qwen3 Max Thinking latency
Qwen3 Max Thinking time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live model usage over the trailing 7 days.
Qwen3 Max Thinking examples
Recent arena outputs from Qwen3 Max Thinking, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.
Qwen3 Max Thinking license
Qwen3 Max Thinking is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms, has 1.0T parameters.
- License
- Proprietary
- Hosted access
- Parameters
- 1.0T
Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply
Qwen3 Max Thinking resources
Official sources for Qwen3 Max Thinking: provider documentation, official playground.
Qwen3 Max Thinking vs other models
The most-compared alternatives to Qwen3 Max Thinking are Gemini 3 Pro, GPT-5 High, Gemma 4 31B. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.
Models like Qwen3 Max Thinking
Models ranked just above and below Qwen3 Max Thinking by LLM Stats score.
FAQ
Common questions about Qwen3 Max Thinking.